I received today a text messag, claiming to be from HM Passport Office. It reads -

"Passport validity rules for Europe have changed, you may need to renew earlier than planned. Visit......", followed by what appears to be a UK-Gov web page.

The alarm bells rang as soon a I saw it ! Punctuation is bizarre.

Local journalist on "Isle of Bute News" thinks it may be legit - A million texts to encourage travellers to check passport validity after Brexit - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Quite likely. The six month issue has been in the news recently.

It seems that the Passport Office is sending texts to those who recently got new passports and provided mobile numbers on application. A sign of the times that we assume that something is a scam when it is, in fact, a legitimate message from our masters. Sending a message with punctuation and grammatical errors is usually a sign of the scammer. this was simply composed by someone who does not know how to punctuate !

Good point about the punctuation, though, scot!

not only bad punctuation but awful spelling skills.